Comosi Wash: Blancan, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Paenemarmota sp. Hibbard and Schultz 1948
said to be "P. barbouri" by Repenning 1962
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
includes "Asinus pons" of Repenning 1962
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Lamini indet. Webb 1965
includes "Tanupolama cf. blancoensis" of Repenning 1962
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Lynx sp. Kerr 1792
Alroy 2002
said by Werdelin 1985 to be close to "F." rexroadensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Chasmaporthetes sp. Hay 1921
    = Chasmaporthetes ossifragus Hay 1921
Kurten and Werdelin 1988
"C. sp." of Repenning 1962, Berta 1981
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 110.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.8° North, 110.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Also known as:UALP 9
Database number:19648
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2252. E. H. Lindsay and N. T. Tessman. 1974. Cenozoic Vertebrate Localities and Faunas in Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Sciences 9(1):3-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
2194 B. Kurten and L. Werdelin. 1988. A Review of the Genus Chasmaporthetes Hay, 1921 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(1):46-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
58819 J. H. Quinn. 1958. New Pleistocene Asinus from Southwestern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 32(3):603-610 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]